The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1887-03-26
WISCOASfN LEGISL4TTRE
Senate.

| 10 prevent the abduction OF unmarried
women; raising the age OF consent from 10
TO IA; prohibiting and Furnishing unauth-
| orlzed wearing and improper use of q A. r.
badges; providing for the burial OF honor
ably discharged INDECENT soldiers: relating
| to the municipal court of Milwaukee coun-
| ty, and fixing the salaries of Judge and Off
| GERS thereof; and to authorize the city OF
| Milwaukee to raise special tax, not ex-
| ceeding one mill on the dollar, in the west
| sewerage district OF said city. Assembly
| bills we're concurred in authorizing the con-
| struction OF a dam across Apple river in
PoiA county; to prevent the spread OF
| contagious diseases among cattle; author
! lzlng the construction OF q dam across
Straight river in Polk county; Furnishing
| the issuing OF checks with intent to defraud
| when a person has no money on deposit to
meet payment thereof; making it larceny
to take away real property during tres
| pass
MADISON, March 15.--The following bills
| were passed: To amend section 1924 of
the Revised Statutes OF 1878, and to pro-
vide for appeals under said section; to
! amend the Revised Statutes relating to
| lodges, oranges, etc; to amend the Revised
| Statutes. entitled ''of guardians and
wards" 1T provides that when the father
dies without "A will, the mother may name
| the guardian OF her children in her will;
States Accident Association to do business
in the State on the plan OF mutual insur-
ance on the payment OF the usual taxes;
| to amend the Revised Statutes, relating
| to justices OF the peace; relating to in
ebriates and habitual drunkards. 1t pro-
vides that any person who shall be con-
victed in any court in this State OF
being an inebriate or habitual drunkard,
may be sentenced to imprisonment and
fins in 10 10
| asylum in this State for term not exceed.
ing two years; provided, however, that be-
| fore such senten CO, some relative or friend
| OF such lnebriate or drunkard, shall
execute bond in the sum OF one thousand
dollars, with sufficient surety to be ap-
proved by the courts, to the State OF Wis
cousin, conditioned that he will pay for
the support of such drunkard or inebrate
during his imprisonment and confinement. !
Assembly bills were concurred in: To
amend the charter of the city OF Mayville;
for the government OF county asylums for
the chronic insane. 1t provides that the
county board may appoint a board OF
| trustees who shall hold their office three
years each, one being appointed each year
| for the control of the county asylums.
Bills were indefinitely postponed: Provid
ing for the repeal OF the law creating the
| bureau OF labor statistics.
MADISON, March 16.-The bill amending
the charter OF the city of Chippewa Falls
| was passed. Assembly bills were con-
! CURED in to provide payment for the Off
ciating chaplains Of the senate and assem-
| bly,. 1t appropriates S15 each to the
! ministers who have officiated chaplains
at the opening of the legislative session. A
| different minister has ofiiciated each week
| IN each housel; to incorporate the city OF
| Marinette; to appropriate to George Z.
| Tate the sum OF $400 to defray his ex
| penses in the Tate -McCann contest. At
| the evening session OF the senate resolu-
| tions were adopted to permit the commit
| tee on roads and bridges to introduce
| bin providing for the construction of a
| bridge across the Mi ssissippi river at
| Prairie du CHEN, and instructing all com.
mittees to report all bills referred to them
! for consideration on or before March 25.
| The committee on fish and game reported
| the bill amending the fish law. The assem-
| bly, bill to amend the charter OF the city Of
| Elroy was concurred in.
| MADISON, March 1.-THE bill to declare
parts of certain avenues in the city of Mil
| waukee bouleya ds or pleasure-ways and
| to regulate the use of the same, was passed.
| The following assembly bills were concurred
| in: To incorporate the city of Reedsburg;
| for the establishment OF a superior court
| in Milwaukee; to legalize certain proceed
! ings OF the officers of the city OF Milwaukee;
| to protect butter and cheese manufacturers
| by Furnishing those who sell impure milk to
| manufacturers; to provide for the exemp-
| tion of the property OF the Milwaukee In
dustrial exposition from taxation; to pro-
| vide for the drainage and reclamation OF
| certain lands in Racine and Waukesha
| counties. Bills were indefinitely y postponed:
| To provide adequate punishment for tres
pass in certain cases; providing that the
salary of district attorney in counties OF
| more than 5000 inhabitants shall not be
| less than 81 900 a year. Assembly bills
were non-concurred in: To amend the laws
| OF 1882 relating to the punishment OF a
father for abandonment OF his children,
and a husband for abandonment OF his
| wife; to prohibit the setting OF fires and the
| burning of logs, brush, slabs or sawdust in
certain cases; relating to Royal Adelphia;
| to give county boards the right to regulate
the tramp nuisance. The bill to allow the
| city election in La Crosse to be held on the
third Tuesday in April this year was passed,
the bill to appropriate $4,000 for 1887,
| and $4,000 for 1888 as the governor e
contingent fund was also passed.
MADISON March 1s.-Gov. Rusk returned
| to the Senate the bill authorizing the i'm
! provement of st. Louis Bay, in Douglas
| County, by tax to be raised by the
county, with his objections thereto. The
| Governor deems the improvement being
made in the bay by the general govern.
ment sufficient and opposes the custom OF
sectional legislation that is becoming too
| extravagant to be wise. The Senate re.
fused to pass the bill over the Veto Bills
were passed, among others, to provide for
an inspector OF public buildings in Milwau
! kee; to amend the charter OF the city Of
| Appleton; to incorporate the city of Maus-
ton; to amend the charter of the city of
Viroqua. The Senate adjourned until
| Co. 80 A. NJ. tomorrow.
| MADISON, March 20.-In the Senate the
following bills were coDcurred in: To pro-
vide for fees OF clerks OF circuit courts in
certain cases; to provide for refunding the
| Indebtedness of school districts; relating
| to the destruction of noxious weeds; re-
| curing every railway company to keep an
axe and saw on the outside as well as the
| inside OF all cars used for the transporta.
| ton OF passengers; requiring short line tel
! egraph companies operated in only one or
two counties to pay a state license OF per
cent. on their gross earnings, instead OF s l
per mile OF wire, and also requiring them
to give cheap rate OF % cents for twenty.
| i've words, and ! cent for each additional
| word; to authorize railway companies to ap-
| point police officers on their own premises
! to appropriate the sum 50 600 or so much
thereof as may be required, to aid IN secur
ing an exhibition of the condition and work
/
National Centenary School exposition in
Chicago, in July, 1887; permitting the en-
largement OF cemeteries by condemnation
! proceedings; relating to the Office of assist
ant attorney general; relating to insurance
companies. 1t makes the A. per cent. re
serve which insurance companies should
have before they can do business applica blt
to assessment companies.
Assembly.
MADISON, March 14.-Tbe Senate bill to
incorporate the city OF Richland Center
was concurred in. The bill to punish any
person who shall knowingly make traffic
or sell oieo butter, butterine. or any imita
/ ton butter or cheese without making the
| same known to buyer or consumer, by i'm
prisonment III the county iaii for not more
| than 30 days, or by fine not to exceed
( S25, ass passed Jwenty-six bills wsrs
indefinitely postponed. Among these wers
bills TO Incorporate the city OF Mondov
and city OF Wausatosa; to change the rate